IntroCDmVerse 1CC
Mama told her baby girl, take it real slow... Girl told her mama, hey, I really gotta go....
AmFF
he's waitin' in the car.....mama said, girl you won"t get far..
CC
Thus are the dreams of an average jane...90 miles an hour, down a lover's lane....
AmFF
on a tank of dreams..oh, if she could've only seen...
Pre-ChorusGDmFG
that fate's got cards that it don't wanna show...
ChorusCAm
an' that boy's just a walkaway joe, born to be a leaver, tell ya from the word go...
FBb
destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise...
FGCDmC
she's gonna know it in a matter of time....that boy's just a walkaway joe..
Verse 2CC
Just a little while into Abilene, pulls into a station and he robs it clean....
AmFF
she's waitin' in the car....oh,underneath the texaco star...
CC
She only wanted love...didn't bargain for this....she can't help but love him for the way he is...
AmFF
she's only seventeen...and there ain't no reasoning.....
Pre-ChorusGDmFG
so, she'll ride this ride as far as it can go...
ChorusCAm
'cause that boy's just a walkaway joe....born to be a leaver... tell ya from the word go...
FBb
destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise...
FG
she's gonna know it in a matter of time...
C
.that boy's just a walkaway joe..
BridgeDmAmFBbDmAmFGDmCCCC
Somewhere in a roadside motel room... alone in the silence... she wakes up too soon...
AmFF
and reaches for his arm...but she'll just keep reaching on....
GDmFGG
for the cold, hard truth revealed what it had known....
ChorusCAm
that boy's just a walkaway joe....born to be a leaver... tell ya from the word go...
FBbFG
destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise..but it was just another lesson in life
CAmC
that boy was a walkaway joe.....ooooh yeah.....all he was was a walkaway joe
AmCAm
ooooh.....ooooh....oooh .................he was a walkaway joe......... (fade)
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